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  2. My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The chord structure is nearly identical, the melody slightly altered. Other verses in "Hackensack", with completely different chord structures and melodies, have no corollaries in "My Little Grass Shack". [32] Two sequels were written to "Little Grass Shack" in 1934, Johnny Noble getting partial credit for both.

  3. Gabby Pahinui - Wikipedia

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    Gabby Pahinui was born with the name Charles Kapono Kahahawai Jr. in Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, into a struggling family that sold leis. [3] He was later hānaied (informally adopted) with his brother and one of his sisters to Emily and Philip Pahinui, and they were raised in the impoverished district of Kaka'ako in Honolulu in the 1920s ("all tin roofs and kinda falling apart").

  4. Mel Bay - Wikipedia

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    Bay did not have a guitar teacher, so Bay watched the few guitarists he knew and copied their fingering on the fretboard, teaching himself chords. Once he felt he knew the rudiments of the guitar, he started experimenting with other instruments, including the tenor banjo, mandolin, Hawaiian guitar, and ukulele. [2]

  5. Music of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    It was named in reference to the movement of players' fingers, acting as fleas jumping to and from different frets and strings. There are currently four sizes of ukulele; soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. [37] Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last Hawaiian Queen, believed that the name for the ukulele means "The gift that came here". She believed ...

  6. Tahitian ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The Tahitian ukulele (ʻukarere or Tahitian banjo) is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia. This variant of the older Hawaiian ukulele is noted by a higher and thinner sound and an open back, [ 1 ] and is often strummed much faster.

  7. Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album - Wikipedia

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    The Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists from 2005 to 2011 for quality Hawaiian music albums. The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical ...

  8. Ukulele Baby! - Wikipedia

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    Ukulele Baby! is the 33rd The Wiggles album release featuring guest vocalist Rolf Harris and Hey Hey It's Saturday host Daryl Somers. It was released on 5 February 2011 by ABC Music distributed by Universal Music Australia & won the 2011 ARIA for Best Children's album .

  9. Maple Leaf Rag - Wikipedia

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    In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [11] Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of his appearance, he manages to wow the crowd with the Maple Leaf Rag.